[Web4lib] Does anyone need a federated OPAC search?

[B.G. Sloan]

Ahhh...reminds me of the good old days. My book "Linked Systems for Resource Sharing" was published 20 years ago this spring, in 1990.
 
Bernie Sloan

--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:


From: Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Does anyone need a federated OPAC search?
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 11:25 AM


Are there any libraries out there who could benefit from a search that
combined two or more OPACs onto one page of results?

I'm looking for people who want it, but aren't actually in the market
for a gazillion-dollar "federated search" solution. I'm thinking there
must be some libraries with reciprocal lending agreements with other
libraries, but no easy unified catalog. I'd particularly like to find
someone with a bunch of different catalogs from different vendors.

This would be free for the life of the test and, if we make a sellable
product, for at least a year after.

Tim

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